Author: David Livingstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone, 1858-1863: The journals continued with letters and dispatches therefrom
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone, 1858-1863: Journals.-2. The journals continued,with letters and dispatches therefrom
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960: Volume 5, A Bibliographic Guide to Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: L. H. Gann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521078597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521078597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.
The Zambezi Expedition of David Livingstone, 1858-1863
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Geography and Revolution
Author: David N. Livingstone
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226487350
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A term with myriad associations, revolution is commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolution examines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers assemble a set of essays that are themselves revolutionary in uncovering not only the geography of revolutions but the role of geography in revolutions. Here, scientific revolutions—Copernican, Newtonian, and Darwinian—ordinarily thought of as placeless, are revealed to be rooted in specific sites and spaces. Technical revolutions—the advent of print, time-keeping, and photography—emerge as inventions that transformed the world's order without homogenizing it. Political revolutions—in France, England, Germany, and the United States—are notable for their debates on the nature of political institutions and national identity. Gathering insight from geographers, historians, and historians of science, Geography and Revolution is an invitation to take the where as seriously as the who and the when in examining the nature, shape, and location of revolutions.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226487350
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A term with myriad associations, revolution is commonly understood in its intellectual, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. Until now, almost no attention has been paid to revolution and questions of geography. Geography and Revolution examines the ways that place and space matter in a variety of revolutionary situations. David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers assemble a set of essays that are themselves revolutionary in uncovering not only the geography of revolutions but the role of geography in revolutions. Here, scientific revolutions—Copernican, Newtonian, and Darwinian—ordinarily thought of as placeless, are revealed to be rooted in specific sites and spaces. Technical revolutions—the advent of print, time-keeping, and photography—emerge as inventions that transformed the world's order without homogenizing it. Political revolutions—in France, England, Germany, and the United States—are notable for their debates on the nature of political institutions and national identity. Gathering insight from geographers, historians, and historians of science, Geography and Revolution is an invitation to take the where as seriously as the who and the when in examining the nature, shape, and location of revolutions.
Picturing Empire
Author: James R. Ryan
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780231636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780231636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.
Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire
Author: Jean Fernandez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100002959X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians, with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society, and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers, cartographers, ethnologists, medical topographers, administrators, and missionaries published by the RGS, local geographical societies, or the colonial state, acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R.L. Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Flora Annie Steel, Winwood Reade, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling, the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction, published between 1870 and 1901, reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies, and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100002959X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians, with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society, and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers, cartographers, ethnologists, medical topographers, administrators, and missionaries published by the RGS, local geographical societies, or the colonial state, acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R.L. Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Flora Annie Steel, Winwood Reade, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling, the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction, published between 1870 and 1901, reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies, and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach.
The Rhodesias and Nyasaland
Author: Library of Congress. African Section
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : General Reference and Bibliography Division, Reference Department, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : General Reference and Bibliography Division, Reference Department, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Pre-colonial Africa
Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
This dictionary provides information about Africa before European colonial rule. It features details of African culture, history, rulers, migrations, wars, and contact between Africans and Arab, Asian, and European travelers. An introductory essay offers background information on Africa's past, and a chronology outlines the principle events of African history. An appendix traces the rise and fall of various African dynasties. Collins is an emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. c. Book News Inc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
This dictionary provides information about Africa before European colonial rule. It features details of African culture, history, rulers, migrations, wars, and contact between Africans and Arab, Asian, and European travelers. An introductory essay offers background information on Africa's past, and a chronology outlines the principle events of African history. An appendix traces the rise and fall of various African dynasties. Collins is an emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. c. Book News Inc.
Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description